{"id":14416,"date":"2016-01-18T00:01:44","date_gmt":"2016-01-18T00:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=14416"},"modified":"2015-12-13T05:02:36","modified_gmt":"2015-12-13T05:02:36","slug":"bebop-puzzle-beat-ipad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/18\/bebop-puzzle-beat-ipad\/","title":{"rendered":"Bebop Puzzle Beat (iPad)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"BEBOP_BOX\"<\/a>A jazz band\u2019s singer has been kidnapped and taken to a tower, and now you can help them save her by\u2026solving puzzles? Bebop Puzzle Beat is an arcade action puzzle game with a jazzy theme, and it\u2019s free-to-play for iOS devices (reviewed on iPad here).<\/p>\n

The game is simple. Colored tiles appear on the screen, and you must tap on two or more to clear them out.\u00a0 They don\u2019t even have to be adjacent, even though the instructions said they do (unless I misread them).\u00a0 When you match two, a line will form between then and any same colored tiles that touch that line will also clear out.\u00a0 And as long as the tiles haven\u2019t disappeared yet, you can chain more by touching them before they go away.\u00a0 And that\u2019s really all there is to it.<\/p>\n

The extra rules are what make this game a bit more complicated. In each stage, you may have to do something different in a given time limit.\u00a0 Like reach a certain score or match a certain number of tiles.\u00a0 Later on you may have to defeat enemies and bosses by matching tiles.\u00a0 Those are hard because not only do you have to keep up with matching tiles, but you must also move a cursor so that it lands on the enemy so it\u2019ll take damage.\u00a0 And sometimes, the playfield itself will rotate and spin around.\u00a0 You can tap on tiles to help you match colors like a joker wild card, and other tiles will slow down the spinning playfield, but it does get pretty annoying when it spins so fast that you can\u2019t really do anything.\u00a0 Personally, I would\u2019ve liked this game a lot better if they would\u2019ve taken out the battle modes and rotating playfield.\u00a0 Sometimes less is more.<\/p>\n

Even though the game is free-to-play, I didn\u2019t find any of the nuances with this type of game that annoying. Sometimes after a game, a video ad may pop up, but you can skip them pretty quickly.\u00a0 If you lose a level, one of your jazz band players will get captured and you have to wait a bit for them to be free, but you don\u2019t have to wait too long.\u00a0 You can buy a master key once you download the game that makes it so you don\u2019t have to worry about that either.\u00a0 It\u2019s the steep difficulty curve and annoying battles and rotating playfield that annoyed me.<\/p>\n

\"BEBOP_SCREEN\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Kid Factor:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Nothing violent or objectionable here. Reading skill is helpful for the text, and parental supervision is recommended anyway for the in-game purchases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A jazz band\u2019s singer has been kidnapped and taken to a tower, and now you can help them save her by\u2026solving puzzles? Bebop Puzzle Beat is an arcade action puzzle game with a jazzy theme, and it\u2019s free-to-play for iOS devices (reviewed on iPad here). The game is simple. Colored tiles appear on the screen, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":14412,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14416"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14418,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14416\/revisions\/14418"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}